Historical Identity and Migration
How important is history for migrant children’s identity? Preliminary quantitative research with over 400 students from Vienna, aged ten to fifteen, aims to find out.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/7-2019-3/migration-historical-identity/
Dragons in Historical Culture
Historical culture has shifted towards fantasy. A fitting example is that toy manufacturers, such as Lego and Playmobil, have started to implement dragons into their worlds.
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Quelle: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/6-2018-39/dragons-historical-culture/
Kindergarten: A Place for Historical Thinking
Specialists in the teaching of the natural sciences have long recognised kindergarten as a key environment in forming young persons’ interest and abilities in science. Do kindergartens also include historical and civic education?
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Knights in Children’s Rooms. Public History and its Youngest Users
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Children’s rooms? History teachers often know little or nothing about how their pupils encounter history or which historical cultural products they should actually use to engage their protégés. Even relevant top-sellers–such as the computer game Assassin’s Creed in the umpteenth version–are, if one inquires in teacher training courses, unknown places on the historical cultural map.
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However, far more traditional approaches, which students encounter in everyday life, also often go unnoticed. Nevertheless, these approaches leave traces that affect students’ ideas about the past. During a visit to a Catholic church in Austria in December 2015, where I had the opportunity to look at the pictures of the Passion of Christ hanging there, in which Roman soldiers were also shown, I became aware of the children.
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